For rigid plaintext output from different inputs, you might try my demime
script. It was actually developed to de-attachment and de-html mailing lists.

http://scifi.squawk.com/demime.html

It uses HTML::FormatText for html-to-plaintext conversion. I agree that
Lynx does a better job, and it is likely that links does an even better job
since it does tables.

I have to admit that I do not worry about character sets. Some users have
dealt with local character sets using simple 8 bit passthrough and a
constant character set.

Using procmail or maildrop to drive something like demime is probably the
way to go. Putting something like this into the MTA seems wrong.

At 03:41 AM 2002-06-04 +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
>Martin Pala <martin.palahq.iol.cz> writes:
>
> > The problem is, that huge of my clients (one domain) have special needs
> > - they have SetTopBoxes, that support only plaintext messages. Is there
> > a functional content filter for converting HTML to plaintext, or maybe
> > what way could be used to reach this.
>
>I support Wietse's suggestion. (The alternative would be to bounce such
>mail with procmail/formail or maildrop/reformail and tell the sender to
>retry in plain text, but some users will be unable to configure their
>?utl??k properly and will be unable to send mail to your settop box
>user, which is probably not desirable).

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